Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] [verb] out [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Periodically the ship had literally sailed up on to the tug , ramming her bows against the stern , and finally the towing hawser had ripped out the capstan to which it was fastened . |
| 2 | Somehow , the old man had let out a dangerous secret , one which could not be discussed in a room on an Air Force base . |
| 3 | But the heat and the darkness and the twisted magic had long since drained the heart from the land ; the dark sorcery had sucked out the goodness and turned it into a stunted , abandoned place . |
| 4 | Previously the Central Bank had carried out a series of devaluations of the new cruzado , which on its introduction in January 1989 had exchanged at near equity with the United States dollar . |
| 5 | Or maybe a process of natural selection had winnowed out the overworked and discontented , the theoretical and jaded and left the few who were propelled back to the school by the same affection , curiosity and remembered enthusiasm that had drawn us . |
| 6 | If any other pioneering company had brought out a call-only cordless telephone , I wonder who would shed tears when it failed to sell . |
| 7 | Some twentieth-century vandal had ripped out the latticed windows of number seventeen . |
| 8 | In fact , my sheer busyness had squeezed out the close intimacy I had known with him during the first few months of the year after my operation . |
| 9 | As soon as the anti-aircraft fire began to thin out the F2B dived to begin photographing below cloud level . |
| 10 | The latrines were proclaimed disgusting and abandoned for the privacy of open spaces , and the red bitch continued to lick out the dirty dishes before Mina swilled them cursorily with river water . |
| 11 | The new statute had set out the management arrangements governing the institutions which the county authority had taken over . |
| 12 | This will include any doctor , psychiatrist or other expert directed to carry out an examination or assessment . |
| 13 | A dripping waterpipe had shortened out the starting motor which had been activated and started the main engine . |
| 14 | Colorado-based Miniscribe filed for bankruptcy protection in January 1990 when it emerged that its senior management had carried out a massive fraud . |